For those wishing a letter grade, you must submit a 4-5 page final paper either on one of the four propsed topics above or on a topic of your own choice concerning genomics and health. To write on one of the suggested topics above, click on the topic title and it will tell you how to do the research for that topic.

If you want to write on a topic of your own choice, you must submit that topic to me via email for my approval before you write your paper. For instance you may wish to write about ethical issues of genetic selection, insurability, genetic discrimination etc. However you must get my approval for your topic before you write your paper. Again you must submit the paper to my via email (brutlag@stanford.edu) with a message on the date of the last lecture in the course or earlier.

To summarize, those wishing a letter grade in the course must:

Attend at least nine (9) out of ten (10) classes..If you miss a class, you may get credit for that class by watching the online video of that session and sending me an email message (brutlag@stanford.edu) with a question about the material presented in the lecture.

Write a four (4) to five (5) page paper for a letter grade that is due on the last day of class or earlier.

All papers must be submitted to me via email (brutlag@stanford.edu), preferably as an attached document. The email must be dated by the last day of class or earlier. Your attached document can be in any of these formats: Word, Pages, RTF, text, PDF, Google Doc, or HTML)